Roller-bearing yoke driven by shaft.



P. S. S'I'BENSTRUP'K; G. S. LOGKWOOD. ROLLER BEARING YOKE DRIVEN BY SHAFT.

APPLICATION I'ILED AUG. 18, 1908.

926,967. Patented July 6, 1909.

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S. LflGKWClOD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

PETER S. STEENSTRUP AND (.illAlllQlllS PATENT 0F FICE.

ROLLER-BEARING YOKE DRIVEN BY SHAFT..

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed August 18, 1908.

Patented July 6, 1909.

Serial No. 449,068.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER S. SHEEN" srnur and CHARLES S. LOCKWOOD, citizens of the United States, residing at Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Iniprownnents in Roller-Beari11g Yokes Driven by Shafts, fully described, and represented in the follow ing specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This inventioii relates to that class of roller bearings in which a so-called cage is used to hold the rolls a iproxiinately parallel with one another in their movement around the shaft, such cage consisting of rings at oppo' site ends of the bearing with guide bars extended between the rings to guide the rolls. In such cages the rings have been made with their inner and outer edges to clear the shaft and shell or. casing of the hearing, or to clear the shaft and fit the casing, whereby the frictional contact with the casing operated to retard the rotation of the cage and rolls, and cause a slipping of the rolls upon the shaft. Such slip mg also causes friction with the reduces the efficiency of the rolls. Such cages have often been used with loose rolls made long enough to fit between the rings of the cage, and in such case the rings have been tied together by several flat tiebars inserted radially between groups of the rolls and operatin to hold the rolls parallel with the shaft. 'l he rings and guide-bars of such cages have commonly been fitted to touch the casing of the bearing, and thus exert a frictional drag upon the rolls, which is reatly aggravated if any dirt or other foreign matter gains access to-the bearing, as such dirt. is thrown outward to the casing by the centrifugal motion, and increases the frictional resistance.

Theob'ect of the present invention is toavoid suc frictional resistances to the move ment of the rolls, and to actually make the friction efficient in propelling the cage around within the casing, and this object is fitted to contact with the shaft, so] thataccomplished "by making a cage with rings.

where the'shaft revolves inside a stationary bearingfits motion may be in a slight degree impartedtothecage' and thus irnpcl the rolls in the direction in which they are traveling. The invention also includes the use of fiat guide-bars. connecting the rings, and made to contact with the revolving shaft, and narrow enough to wholly clear the casing so as to avoid any frictional contact therewith.

The invention will be understood byrofer once to the annexed drawing, in whicl Figure l is an end view of a bearing having these improvements(Fig. 2 is a section of the same, on line 2-3 in Fig. 1; with a shaft in the bearing Fig. Sis a siinil 1 section without the shaft on line 2- in Fig. 1 and showing continuous rolls, while Fig. 2 shows the roll in sections. Fig. 4i is an end view of a roll; Fig. 5 is a side view of a rollsection; and Fig. 6 is a side view of a flat guide-bar.

a designates a shell within which the rolls are shown, and which may be inserted in any suitable rolldiearing; l) designates the rollsections, shown of solid tubes in Fig.4, and of a spirally wound strip in Fig. 2. i In Fig. 2 a shaft 0 is shown within the rolls, and the shaft. Cylindrical giiidi-i-oarsfai'e extended through the roll-sections in Fig. 2, and their ends fitted into thev rings. The rings are shown tied together by ii at guide-bars 0, also fitted into contact with the shaft, and cut away on their outer sides to form recesses at 0 so as to wholly clear the snell a.

In this invention it is not necessary to bore out the roll-sectionsor fit thorn closely to their guide rods f, .as the groups of rolls between the flat guide-bars g are held parallel by these flat bars, andthe barsf are therefore fitted very'loosely to the roll sections.

The cylindrical guide-bars are not necessary if rolls in one piece are used, like those shown in Fig. 3, this figure showing tubular rolls extended from one ring to the other, and held apiroxilnately, in place by conical. studs i 011 the rings as is common. Fig. 3

, shows two of the flat guide-bars c, which are arranged in practice to stand close to the adjacent rolls, so as to touch the nearest roll if it gets out of parallelism, and thus guides such roll and the others of the same group, which revolveclose thereto; these guide-bars serving as the means of connectionbetween the rings, by means of terions d on the bars fitted to'niortises 7b in the rings.

All the rolls in Fig. 3 are shown each of one piece of tube, as is common; the only novelty in'this construction being the fitting of the ring and guide-bar into contact with the shaft, so as to be propelled thereby, from the friction. between their contacting surfaces;

and the clearance between the bar'andthe shell, which is effected by making it narrow enough at the ends, and also by notching its outer side between the ends, so as to freely clear or pass over any dirt that may adhere to the shell. The outer side of the rings 9 is made to clear the shell, but the ring is made Wider than the middle or recessed portion of the bars 2 to secure strength enough' for the lnortises h.

From the above description it will be seen that the invention re uires an intentional contact of the rings 9 with the shaft, and that the advantages of such contact are also obtained by making the inner edges of the guide-bars to contact in like manner, and that the invention is especially applicable to bearings in which the casing is stationary, and the shaft revolves therein.

The shell I) represents. any lining which may be used in the casing of a roller-bearing, but the invention may be applied to a casing having no lining when desired.

We are aware that rolls havebeen journaled in cages so as to make the entire set of rolls capable of handling as a unit independent of the'casing, and that cages or guides have been used consisting of rings withtie-bars which did not confine the-rolls within the cage when removed from the casing; but we are not aware that any such cage has been of rolls arranged between the guide-bars to support the axle within the shell.

2. A. roller bearing having a shell or casing, a shaft rotated within the shell, a cage consisting of the rings 9 to contact with the shaft and frictionally ropelled thereby, guide-bars e'connecting t e rmgs and having the recesses 6 cut away upon thenpper sides to Whollyclear the shell, and groups of rolls arranged between the guide-bars to support the axle within the shell.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER s. STEENSTRUP. CHARLES s. LooKWooD.

Witnesses ALFRED CoA'rns, CLIFFORD PARSHALL. 

